World War II ended 75 years ago ... But some nations mark Aug. 15 as the war’s end, the day Japan’s emperor made a speech announcing the surrender. A: An abbreviation for Victory over Japan ...

A World War II airman who was taken captive by Japanese forces and died in a prison fire after his plane was shot down has ...

(Mainichi/Akihiro Hirata) TOKYO -- Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is considering issuing a statement to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II ... to reaffirm Japan's postwar ...

Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, 1.2 million Japanese war dead are still unaccounted for. That's about half of the 2.4 million Japanese, mostly soldiers, who died during Japan's ...

From left: Japanese Minister of Education ... With 2025 marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, issues of historical perception are expected to attract renewed attention, and ...

“This year marks the 80th anniversary of (the end of) World War II ... Taiwanese people can decide their future. World War II, and the full-scale Japanese invasion of China in 1937 that preceded ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito renewed his wish for world peace on his birthday, marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, the Imperial Household Agency said on Sunday. "I hope that this ...

As the 80th anniversary of the end of Iwo Jima — the infamous World War II battle against the Japanese Army — approaches on ...

Takamatsu Gushiken has spent years voluntarily locating bodies, and fragments of bodies, of World War II victims in Japan’s Okinawa's jungle. Over 80 years since a major battle, Gushiken shared with ...

Behind the dreamy scenery of the HBO show’s latest location lurks an explosive story of Thailand’s involvement in the ...

Eisenhower, director of the War Relocation Authority. An historical record of the transfer of Japanese residents from ... the standard for the rest of the world in the treatment of people who ...